(610 quotes found)
“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
“Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.”
Mae West
“Their argument is extremely dangerous in the long term because it can be used to justify all kinds of things that I'm sure neither the president nor the attorney general has thought about. ...The American system was set up on the assumption that you can't rely on the good will of people with power.”
David Keene
“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will”
Benjamin Franklin
“Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought / by force of circumstances, not argument / to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.”
Mark Twain
“Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it, that is, married women.”
“There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Agree with thine adversary quickly.”
Jesus Christ
